{"id":292140,"date":"2026-07-10T09:45:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T09:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/292140\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T09:45:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T09:45:25","slug":"nyc-reopens-streets-near-midtown-tower-after-evacuation-stabilization-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/292140\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Reopens Streets Near Midtown Tower After Evacuation, Stabilization Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">New York City building regulators said the conversion of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-07-07\/building-in-midtown-manhattan-evacuated-on-collapse-fears\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Midtown Manhattan office tower<\/a> into residences must be paused while officials investigate what caused columns inside the building to fail, leading to a massive emergency response that briefly shut down one of the busiest corridors of the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The Department of Buildings issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.bwbx.io\/documents\/users\/iqjWHBFdfxIU\/rD8o95cKuw28\/v0\" title=\"PDF of the order\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">partial stop-work order<\/a> to halt all non-emergency construction at the site, where steel columns buckled on the 21st floor, causing structural damage on multiple others levels of the building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City building regulators said the conversion of a Midtown Manhattan office tower into residences must be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6012,3339,5869,1527,75,9,24,56,63,65,64,110626,1491,5913,7990],"class_list":["post-292140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-avenues","tag-cities","tag-citylab","tag-construction","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-pfizer-inc","tag-real-estate","tag-regulation","tag-twitter-inc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}